Recording Control Apparatus, Recording Control Method and Recording Apparatus Integral with Camera

1. A recording control apparatus, comprising: a non-volatile memory file system section that manages addresses of a rewritable non-volatile memory and erases unnecessary data remaining in the rewritable non-volatile memory; an optical disc file system section that configures a file system for an optical disc; an application format section that generates a file group containing a set of video stream data of at least a reproduction access minimum unit conforming to the application format of optical discs on the optical disc file system; a buffer that temporarily stores data; a non-volatile memory buffer control section that converts a file group stored in the buffer into recording units of rewritable non-volatile memory, each recording unit of rewritable non-volatile memory being the size of an erase block of the rewritable non-volatile memory; a recording control section that causes the file group converted into the recording units of rewritable non-volatile memory to be recorded in a data recording region of the non-volatile memory; a drive control section that controls an optical disc drive; a management information switching section that generates a file group to be recorded on the optical disc by switching file management information stored in the file group to file management information for the optical disc according to a new writing address acquired by the drive control section and the file management information stored in the file group; and an optical disc buffer control section that converts the file group stored in the buffer into recording units of the optical disc so as to be recorded on the optical disc wherein the optical disc buffer control section includes a multiple density buffer control section that converts the recording unit of the optical disc into a recording unit of n times 2 so as to match the recording unit of a multiple density optical disc when recording on a multiple density optical disc having a recording density of n times 2, and the management information switching section generates a file group to be recorded on an optical disc having a recording density of n times 2 by switching the file management information to file management information for an optical disc having a recording density of n times 2.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the rewritable non-volatile memory is a flash memory.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the non-volatile memory buffer control section makes the recording units of rewritable non-volatile memory have a data size equal to an integer times a recording unit of the optical disc.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising: an optical disc standard recording method selection section that selects either a standard recording method of optical discs with which the set of video stream data conforming to the standard of the optical disc resets clock time information (SCR) annexed to each recording pack data at the end of recording the video stream data when writing data in the rewritable non-volatile memory, or the standard recording method of optical discs with which recording clock time information (SCR) of the video stream data immediately succeeds the recording clock time information (SCR) of the video stream data at the end of the last recording session of recording video stream data as annexed to each recording pack data, prior to the start of recording when generating the set of video stream data.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising: a system control section that causes data accumulation in a data accumulation section and erasure of unnecessary data of the non-volatile memory by the non-volatile memory file system section to take place concurrently at a predetermined sequence and timing.